11:5Thenthe Spiritof the Lordcame8 upon me and saidto me, “Say: This is whatthe Lordsays: ‘Thisis what you are thinking,9O houseof Israel; Iknowwhat goes throughyour minds.1011:6You have killedmanypeople in thiscity; you have filledits streetswith corpses.’11:7Therefore, this is whatthe sovereignLordsays: ‘The corpsesyou havedumped11in the midstof the city12 are the meat, and this city13 is the cooking pot, but I will takeyou outof it.1411:8You fearthe sword, so the swordI will bringagainstyou,’ declaresthe sovereignLord.11:9‘But I will take you outof the city.15And I willhandyou over to foreigners. I will executejudgmentson you.11:10You will dieby the sword; I willjudgeyou at the borderof Israel. Then you will knowthatI amthe Lord.11:11This city will notbe a cooking potfor you, and youwill not16 bemeatwithinit; I will judgeyou at the borderof Israel.11:12Then you will knowthatI amthe Lord, whosestatutesyou have notfollowedand whose regulationsyou have notcarried out. Instead you have behavedaccording to the regulationsof the nationsaroundyou!’”

11:14Thenthe wordof the Lordcame tome:11:15“Sonof man, your brothers,18your relatives,19and the wholehouseof Israel, allof them are those to whomthe inhabitantsof Jerusalem20have said, ‘They have gone21 far awayfromthe Lord; to us thislandhas been givenas a possession.’

11:16 “Thereforesay: ‘This is whatthe sovereignLordsays: AlthoughI have removed them far awayamong the nationsand have dispersedthem among the countries, I have beena little22sanctuaryfor them among the landswherethey have gone.’

11:17 “Thereforesay: ‘This is whatthe sovereignLordsays: When I regatheryou fromthe peoplesand assembleyou fromthe landswhereyou have been dispersed, I will giveyou back the countryof Israel.’

11:18 “When they returnto it, they will removefrom it allits detestablethings and allits abominations.11:19I will givethem oneheartand I will puta newspiritwithinthem;23 I will removethe heartsof stonefrom their bodies24and I will givethem tenderhearts,2511:20so that they mayfollowmy statutesand observemy regulationsand carrythem out. Thenthey will bemy people, and Iwill betheir God.2611:21But those whose heartsare devotedto detestable thingsand abominations, I hereby repaythem for what they have done,27saysthe sovereignLord.”

11:22Thenthe cherubimspread28 their wingswith their wheelsalongsidethem while the gloryof the Godof Israelhoveredabovethem.11:23The gloryof the Lordrose upfrom withinthe cityand stopped29overthe mountaineastof it.11:24Then a wind30liftedme upand carriedme tothe exilesin Babylonia,31in the visiongiven to me by the Spiritof God.

Then the visionI hadseenwent upfromme.11:25So I toldthe exileseverything32the Lordhadshownme.